Journalism students have got straight down to work learning to make news and magazine-style programmes in Coventry University’s new TV studio – nicknamed The Tank, because of its resemblance to a large fishtank (without the fish).

It has green screen, three studio cameras, and a gallery able to take in live feeds from anywhere in the world using tools such as Digero or even Skype. And for students, it’s all hands-on.

Click here to see a video about the new studio, opened in early 2016. Or scroll down to see first-year Journalism students getting the feel of it.

Simon Pipe is a former print and BBC journalist, now a member of the Journalism teaching team at Coventry University. He also runs an experimental website, St Helena Online, about one of the world's most remote inhabited islands, at www.sthelenaonline.org
On Twitter, when he has something to say, he is @simonpipe